I hate hate HATE lol added to the end of every sentence. I have a friend who will complain about how terrible her life is and every sentence ends with lol.

"Do you want to....?"No. I don't. And I usually answer in such a manner.

Also, I can't stand it when bosses/managers/higher-ups start with saying "We need to..." Okay, maybe I'm just being difficult here, but if you say WE, then you need to take some ownership of whatever it is you're telling everyone else to do. If "we" need to get all these bins filled with product, don't then stand by and watch as everyone else fills bins with product and you don't.

Then again, most of these I use with my friends/family, but it's all a matter of audience. I don't use a lot of these here, and if I know that someone is exceptionally bothered by something, I try to remember not to say it around them.

Also add me to the group that can't stand "hating on," "loving on," and - ugh - "crushing on."

"Crushing on" at least has a relation to grammar, since one has a crush on someone else. For that reason, "brag on" really bothers me. As in, "I'm going to brag on my kids right now." No, you're going to brag about your kids. The brag is not getting on them at all.

I don't know if anyone else would consider this one trendy, but I have noticed more and more people around me using it lately: "needs <past tense verb>". E.g. "The sink needs fixed" or "The dog needs fed." No. "The sink needs to be fixed" or perhaps "The sink needs fixing."

Mine is "Talk to the Hand" often while snapping ones neck. To me it shows a total lack of respect to the other person. I used to see that all the time with one of my students this year (a 2nd grader!?) who despite discussions with her parents and her grand mom would persist with this behavior. I feel sorry for her, as she will be going to another school next year and I don't think that will be tolerated there (big cultural change!)

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Life likes to be taken by the hand and told, I'm with you, let's go! Maya Angelou

Any statement about giving/having/improving more than 100%! It isn't possible!

*Putting on maths teacher hat * Although you can't give more than 100% of a finite quantity, you can certainly improve more than 100%. So for example asking someone to give 110% effort is nonsensical, but if I sell $20 worth of widgets one day and $60 worth of widgets the next I can correctly say that the second day's sales are 300% of the first day's, our an improvement of 200%.

Also I'm with Dotty on "I didn't like it, I loved it". I don't really see the problem.

The term "childfree" drives me up the wall. For me, it conjurs up images of a child being some sort of parasite to be avoided.

So what to you would be an acceptable term to describe someone who doesn't want children?

I fought with doctors from ages 16 to 31 to get sterilized because I never wanted kids. Childless to me means I don't have something I wanted. Childfree meansI don't have something I never wanted. From reading childfree blogs & forums it seems most childfree people feel that way.

So yes, for me & I'm sure many other childfree people birthing children is something to be avoided.

This! For me, children were definitely something to be avoided at all costs and thus I am childfree, not childless.

Unrelated: Add me to the group that dislikes "Umm..." at the beginnings of sentences. I rarely hear it used with other than snotty intentions.

Also add me to the group that can't stand "hating on," "loving on," and - ugh - "crushing on."

Thanks for the 'childfree' thumbs up - I was reading this thread and kicked myself for not marking the post so that I could quote it.

There is no other shortened phrase for "no, I don't have children" that doesn't sound condescending to me...childless? No, I am not 'less' because I don't have children. I spent many years using birth control to make sure I didn't have children - I don't think of them as parasites, but to be avoided (in the sense of me having one)...yes.